The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. (Quote by - Horace)

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. (Quote by - Bernhard von Bulow )

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck. (Quote by - S. J. Perelman)

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. (Quote by - Susannah McCorkle)

Many things happen between the cup and the lip. (Quote by - Robert Burton)

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. (Quote by - Thomas Keller)

Control your fate or somebody else will. (Quote by - Heinrich von Pierer)

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived? (Quote by - Bishop Joseph Butler)

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. (Quote by - Edwin Booth)

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life. (Quote by - Marla Maples)

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. (Quote by - Seneca)

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. (Quote by - Marcellinus Ammianus)

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. (Quote by - William Samuel Johnson)

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. (Quote by - Michael Ondaatje)

There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself. (Quote by - John Frusciante)

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears! (Quote by - John McLeod)

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. (Quote by - Helen Hayes)

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. (Quote by - Ovid)

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. (Quote by - Shmuel Y. Agnon)